Japanese Nouns
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Japanese nouns are not that difficult to learn and there are
some similarities and also important differences that I will
outline below for you.
The first thing that you need to know is that unlike English
Japanese nouns do not have a different form for gender. For
example if I am talking about the noun bank or 'ginkoo' in
Japanese there is no male or female version of the noun.
If English is your first language you will naturally think
this is normal however some languages do change the noun for
masculine and feminine, French and Spanish for example do.
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An important difference with Japanese nouns from how we use
nouns in English is that in Japanese they also do not
change the noun for singular or plural. For
example the english noun Coffee is singular as we say one
coffee, however if we want sat three coffees the noun now
changes and we have added the letter 'S' on the end. In
Japanese they do not make any changes to the noun when
discussing more than one of the noun.
Nouns are also followed by particles in Japanese, these are
words that indicate to use what the subject or the object of
the sentence may be. Some of the most common particles are:
'wa' 'o' and 'ga'.
'Wa' indicates the topic
'Ga' indicates the subject
'O' indicates the object
'No' indicates possession
Learning which particle to place after the noun can be a
little difficult to remember at first but comes with a bit of
practice.
I will not go further into Japanese nouns
and grammar here, however if you want my recommendation
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